Bible Texts: Ps.47:1-2, Ps.50:23, Ps.67:5-6, Ps.85:1, Ps.81:3, Ps.105:1, Ps.111:1Ps.131:1-2, Matt.6:22, Gal.4:19, Jn.15:5, Philp.2:13
O clap your hands, all ye people, shout unto God with the voice of triumph. For the Lord most high is terrible, he is a great King over all the earth. He shall subdue the people under us and the nations under our feet. He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom he loved (Ps.47:1-4)
The Scripture above reminds us of how God expects His children to show appreciation for who He is and for what He has done. The word of God says, “clap your hands”. There are many ways you and I can express our thankfulness to God. These include singing, worshipping God in songs and even in prayers, shouting, dancing and clapping. In whatever way you are led to show gratitude to God, it is always a sweet smelling savour to Him and He accepts it. And any time you thank God by your practical action, it shows that you are not ungrateful or unmindful of those seemingly little or big things that He has done.
This is the attitude God wants you to cultivate towards your wife and children. God wants you to be thankful and appreciate your wife and children for those little things that they have done. And one of the ways you can express your appreciation to them is by clapping for them.
As the good and godly husbandman, you must understand that your wife and children are responsive being. They respond to every action that you show towards them whether now or in the future. So, if they do well, even if it is in the simplest of tasks, please call them and celebrate them, and do it openly and proudly. Let them know that you are not unmindful of their little efforts. You must also understand that when you celebrate them openly, they are motivated and inspired to do better.
However, you must be careful not to focus more on the weakness and negative sides of your wife and children than their positive and strong sides. Satan always wants you to focus your attention on the wrong things about your wife and children rather than the things that are right with them. And if you but into his lies and focus on their negatives rather than their positives, it would be very difficult for you to notice any positive improvements in them and consequently lead you to never appreciate them. This attitude will make you to live a life of complaining and murmuring.
But what is the cure to this lie of satan about focusing only on the weaknesses of my wife and children that hinders me from appreciating them?
Focus only what is good about them.
The light of the body is the eye. If therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness, if therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness (Matt.6:22-23)
Therefore, from today and going forward, dwell on the good sides of your wife and children, appreciate them for both small and big works, and watch them grow to become amazingly good and godly sheep. Meanwhile, pray and continue to intercede for them in those areas of their weaknesses and failings until Christ is formed in them (Gal.4:19). That is your honour as the good and godly husbandman.
SPIRITUAL EXERCISE
Father, in the Name of Jesus, deliver me from focusing on the negative sides of my wife and children.
Father, in the Name of Jesus, empower me to be focused on the good and positive sides of my wife and children.
Father, in the Name of Jesus, make me bold to clap for and appreciate my wife and children for their little and big successes.
FAITH CONFESSION
I have the mind of Christ and so I celebrate my wife and children do by clapping for and appreciating them because that is the attitude and character that makes me the good and godly husbandman in Jesus name. Amen.
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